Downloadable stories

[josieb1.livejournal.com]

Hi

I am off on holiday shortly and will be taking my laptop, but I won't have any internet access.  I will go stir crazy if I don't have any fan fic to read, does anyone know of any downloadable stories please, that I can take with me. (or I hate to ask this as it usually causes controveshy but anything they can email me?)

I am a B/J shipper that likes a happy ending, and I love long stories, but other than that I don't have any preferences. Thanks

NB: Loads of options/ideas provided, see coments

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[lougenessis.livejournal.com]

I've purchased a flash drive, where I "save as" stories to so I can read my B/J stories at work. With a flash drive you don't need the internet. Hope that'll help.

[josieb1.livejournal.com]

Thats a great sugestion, thanks for replying. Sounds like I need one of those for my lunch break lol

[edom56.livejournal.com]

If you're interested I'll send you any of my stories you want. I have them all as Word docs. Just send me a message on my LJ with your e-mail.

[josieb1.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much Edom, left a comment on your Dreamwidth post on your LJ

[chaotic-boom.livejournal.com]

The easiest sites to save stories from are bjfic.net and midnight-whispers.ca because they have a link at the top right for the whole story. if you click on "story" it will bring up a new window where you can right click, select all, copy and paste to word and save to your hard drive or a flash drive. you can do really long, multi-chaptered stories like that. atp has the same feature, but for some reason the stories lose their formatting, so you have to go back through and add paragraph and page breaks.
authors there with long stories (totally off the top of my head) are moonshadow woman, edom, crazy fairy, azureopal, xie, vamphile, sapphire....

Hope this helps.

[marysunshine104.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks for this info. I did not know about this feature. I sometimes change the font of stories to make them easier to read (see).

[josieb1.livejournal.com]

Hi Thanks very much, will save this and have a go. And thanks for the author list, quite a few of those authors I already read but would love to save the longer fics, it just takes ages one chapter at a time and I don't have much free time before I go away, so anyway to make the process faster is good for me.

[alasse.livejournal.com]

If you don't mind self recs, my B/J college AU, The Space Between (http://arlad.livejournal.com/45740.html), has a link to download the whole thing in a Word doc there at the master post I linked - it's 50K, happy ending :D

[josieb1.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much, I will pop over and download The Space Between, thanks again for replying

[simplystars.livejournal.com]

If you use Firefox, there's an add-on that lets you save any web page as a pdf (that you could store on a flash drive, as lougenessis suggests). It's great for when you're reading that goooood story and you don't want to worry about losing the bookmark or the site crashing or being taken down - long live the Wayback Machine then! :)

PDF Download (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/636)

That said, I have Celebrity and Gossip by yoursweater and How We Got Where We're Going by Allie, if you haven't read those yet and would like them. Celebrity/Gossip are AU but still B/J.

[michira-70.livejournal.com]

Hey that's great, I just installed it. Thanks a lot!!

[simplystars.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

[michira-70.livejournal.com]

It don't work :(. I tried it a few times, but I always get this message.

We're sorry! Please try converting your web page again in a few minutes.

You've requested your conversion at a peak period and unfortunately because of this, our servers were unable to process your request this time. Please try converting your web page to PDF again in a few minutes.

???????????????

[josieb1.livejournal.com]

It does work, you just have to keep trying. I get that message every now and again, but it always works in the end

[simplystars.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was glitchy yesterday and today I kept getting a "we're sorry, it's a peak conversion period" message... you have to just keep trying.

Also, I noticed if I tried to save a page where the URL had cut-tag code, I kept getting an error message. So I just deleted the cut-tag part of the URL (everything after .html, basically) and then it worked. :)

[josieb1.livejournal.com]

Hi Thanks for the Firefox add in info, I mainly use IE but do have firefox loaded on my laptop so will give that a go. I would love Celebrity and Gossip and How We Got Where We're Going if you don't mind, any chance you could email them to me? I would try and save them myself but time is in short supply at the moment. My email addy is Josie.b1@hotmail.co.uk. Thanks again

[simplystars.livejournal.com]

Sent! :)

[lauryw.livejournal.com]

could you please send me celebrity and gossip? thanks lauryw@aol.com

[simplystars.livejournal.com]

Check your email. :)

[ergenie.livejournal.com]

Can I pls celebrity and gossip too... pls... my email is ergenie21@yahoo.com
thnks...... cheers....

[simplystars.livejournal.com]

Should be in your inbox shortly. :)

[chaotic-boom.livejournal.com]

Could I get in on the emailed Celebrity and Gossip, and HWGWWG? chaoticboom@gmail.com

Thanks so much!

[simplystars.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome - should be in your inbox soon. :)

[webberfan1.livejournal.com]

Could I get in on those fics, please? Thanks!

[simplystars.livejournal.com]

You'll need to send me an email addy - I tried the LJ email from your profile page and it bounced back undeliverable.

[webberfan1.livejournal.com]

muutzo@hotmail.com


Thanks!

[simplystars.livejournal.com]

Hopefully it worked... :)

[lougenessis.livejournal.com]

You are very welcome.

[galeandrandy.livejournal.com]

Just thought I'd tell you here I left you a message in your livejournal inbox in case you don't get emails for that. Later, Rory

[josieb1.livejournal.com]

Thanks Rory, managed to delete your message but replied at your lJ.

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

Please update your post. Thanks.